Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 2, 1911, Page 1

[ VOL. LIIL—NO. 28 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1911 Cabled Paragraphs Rome, Feb. 1—The pope taday r ceived in private audience the Rt. Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, bishop of Fall River, and the Rt. Rev. J. J. Rice, bishop of Burlington, Vt. His: holiness dtsplay- ed great interest in the reports sub- mitted relative to the respective dio- ceses and also in the general progress of Catholicism in America. COMMUNIPAW EXPLOSION MADE MANHATTAN TREMBLE Property Damage it is Estimated Will Hard- ly Fall Below $750,000 Milan, Feb. 1.—Kduarde Sonzonge, the music publisher who jointly with Pietro Mascagni has brought sull against Liebler & Co., alleging a vio- lation of contract to produce Mascag- ni's opera “Ysobel” today asked the court to declare the contract broken through, the fault of the American firm, and to condemn the latter to pay the plaintiffs $5,000. SHOCK FELT AT LONG BRANCH 40 MILES Lower Portion of Manhattan Borough Shaken from Street Level to the Top of the Singer Tower— Severe Damage in Brooklyn, on Ellis Island, and on Staten Island—Direct Cause of the Explosion will Probably Never Be Known—Thirty Lives Lost. Paris, Feb. 1.—Captain Bellanger of the aviation corps of the French army today began a notable cross-country flight in a monoplane from Paris to Pau, a distance of about 500 miles. He left the Vincennes military aero- drome at 8.45 o’clock this morning and landed at Bordeaux at 4.56 p. m., mak ing two stops for gasolene. Ie ac- complished the first stage of the long trip, 360 miles, without incident. The | aviator will continue his flight to Pau tomorrow morning. \ REAR ADMIRAL SPERRY { DIES AT WASHINGTON | A cargp of dyna- | sheathing of the freight house on Pier mite in transit for a freight car to the | No. 6 to the north, was pushed inward hold of a lighter moored at Pier No. 7. | on the side nearest the explosion and Communipaw, N. J., exploded at just | outward on the farther side. one minute past noon today, 150 yards | In the train shed of the terminal south of the Jersey City terminal of | nearly the whole southern exposure the Cemtral Railroad of New Jersey, | of the glass roof collapsed, showering and in the widespread ruin that fol- | the passengers With broken glass. One jowed scven men are known to have,man was struck by a twenty pound Jeen Kkilled, seven more are known to | fragment and so severely cut that he be missing, hundreds were wounded |died afterwards. An engineer in a and varying reports leave from fifteen | shunting locomotive was blown from to twenty more unaccounted for. his cab and died of a fractured skull. The Dead. A tughoat captain was hurled from his 8 3 | wheel house and fjshed out of the The known dead are: 3 ater fifteen minutes’ later, swimming Burnette, Robert, New York, captain | ajout the southern side of the demol- of the tug John Twohey, blown from hed pie his wheel house. Inside the passenger station dam- Morro, Giantonmo, deck hand, killed it (e IRHIG: SE sy e TG on_the barkentine Ingrid. ! were littered with broken slass. Morro. Michaele, his brother. Windows fronting on the inner court McNeil, Charles, engineer of a yard | paq been sucked from the frames, New York, ¥ 1. Of Pneumonia from Which He Had| Suffered Only a Day or Two. ‘Washington, Feb. 1—Rear Admiral Charles ~ Stillman Sperry, ~ United States navy, retired, who commanded the Atlantic fleet on the last leg of its | round-the-world cruise, died sudden- Iy this morning at Garfield hospital here of pneumonia. Rear Admiral Sperry had been ill only a day or so. He was 63 vears of ‘age, having been born at Brook- lyn, N. Y., September 3, 1847, enter- ing the navy in 1862. He reached the rank of rear admiral in 1906, and re- tired on attaining the age of 62 years in_1909. Rear Admiral Sperry was said to b the best-informed officer in_ the nav locomotive, blown from his cab. hes and all the south wall bulged { on questions of international law, and Barbour, Robert, incoming Jersey | it it looked like 4 paper box after | because of this knowledge he repre- Central passenger, killed by falling | There were no sashes | sented the United States navy at one elass. i the windows and mo glass | of the Hague conferences. Armstrong, Jumes. captain of the | fha b "statin Newport, R, L, Feb, 1.—Mrs. Sperry nowder boat stier, owned by left Newport for Washington this eve- American Storage and Deli Com- | Passengers on Ferryboats Wounded. | L, "0/ 000, %0 b e there about ten | Two fe road of nd the slips, boats of the Central Rail- pany of New York. ew Je Unknown man, one of the crew The Missing. t o'clock_tomorrow morning. Arrang . the Somerville | ments for the funeral will not be com- '{'nm"li[i lay 'l',‘ ‘hi“a‘lfg:‘é’;*;‘ pleted until her arrival. The burial, steam lighter Katharine W.: Heinze- jof them careened violently, and all of | ™™ = - man, Louls, engineer of * Katha- i them we owered with their own rine W.; Askley, Frank, crew; Ackiey, | Ay of the wounded passen- | READY TO LOCK HORNS Henry, crew; Stolpe, Oscar. crew: |gers came to New York and were ON TARIFF BOARD MEASURE. loncon, James, crew; Beigian, Louis, | grterward treated at the hospitals here. S Democrats in Congress May Be Found in Opposite Camps. ‘Washington, Feb. 1.— Democratic crew. s Thought to be missing: Twenty Terror in New York. In New York the terror was intens- members of the senate and house ap- pear to be getting ready te lock horns | unknown laborers just getting ready | to eat luncheon on Pier No. 7 when |ified by uncertainty. For half an hour the explosion came, nf;‘bn'ly k‘nevlv hwha h;ui %fl:»anied "(;r $750,000 { where it had happened. 0se in the 3 Property Loss. rocking skyserapers thought the lower 5 Thirty seems to be a conservative | fioors had been torn from under them. | on the permanent tariff board measur estimate of the dead, and the prop- | Those on the street thought the massed | @ situation which republican leaders rty damage will hardly fall below | towers above them had been toppled | are said to be doing little to discour- 0.000. down. Literally acres of glass were |ag2 The fact that the democrats in the two branches of congress may F found in opposite camps was d today when senate repubiican lea hegan a canvass to determine whetk Cauce of Explosion Unknown. broken. cighteen windows were The cause of the explosion is va- | Smashed in the Standard Oil Com- riously attributed .to the dropping of | Pany building at Broadway and & case of dynamite and to a boiler ex- | Shook John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at his Dlosion on & boat. Just what was the | desk. In Trinity church ‘a valyable they can muster enough votes to pasy direct cause will probably never be |Staned glass window was strewed in the house bill. P i half of known. the aisles. It was said that more than half o the democratic senators announced that they would oppose the tariff board measure. It was also said that a dem ocratic tonference would be held in a fow days and an effort would be made to line up_the senate minority against the bill. When it passed the house a few nights ago this result was accom- plished largely by democratic support under the leadership of Speaker-elect Champ Clark. The senate opposition to the bill i1 probably be led by Senator Balley. = ROBIN’S CHARGE AGAINST HUTCHINS IS BASELESS. Affair Investigated by State Superin- tendent of Banks, Cheney. Damage Widely Scattered. The New Jersey Central's terminal | wras wrecked; thres ferryboats in the | alips wers torn and splintered; lower Manhatten, across the river, was shaken from tho street level to the 1op of the Singer tower; severe dam- | sau age was done in Brooklyn, Staten Is- | (he jand and the immigrant detention sta- | glass window in the rear of the ex- tion on Ellis Island; the shock was |change was smashed and in the aqua- falt on Long Island in Amityville, : rium at the southermost tip of the miles distant, and fn New Jersey at|island twelve windows and twenty- Long Branch, 40 miles distant. "The | five skylights were broken. Nearly damage is ®o widely scattered that it |every structure from Fulton street i Impossible as yet to estimate it more | south suffered in some manner, but no than roughly, but in Manhattan alone | damage was done to the subway and 1t 18 placed at §100,000, at Ellis Island | the shock was not even felt in the et from $10,000 to $25,000, and in all | Hudson tubes below the level of the :hr;a guarters of - million appears | Hudson river. 0 & S ST , Incipient Panics Ali About the City. Lighter and Crew Vanished. New York business men who stood The lighter receiving the dynamite, | at their office windows looked out over the Katherine W. owned by James{the North river at noon saw a puff Healing of Jersey City, vanished ut-{of yellow dust shoot into the wind terly with her crew of seven men, |uniil it covered the terminal, and then fncluding the master, Edward Traver. | drift down the wind until it covered Alongside of her lay the lighter Whist- | the terminal train shed. The next er owned by the American Storage |thing they noticed was that every tug- nd Delivery Company of New York; | hoat in the river seemed to be heading she was so badly shattered that she{t, Communipaw. Turning to the sank with her crew of two, while the | streets below they saw them black Swedish steel barkentine Ingrid, a|with surging thousands. Stenogra- Diseuit's toss to the south, was strip- | jhers and clerks rushed into the street ped of her rigging and the lives of | from every door. There were incip- two deck hands aboard were siuffed |jent panics here and there throughout out. Fragments of one man's head was | the city in business buildings and fac- found swinging high on a tangled piece The jar shook many telephone o o fire alarm wires down town into unlimited contacts and all sorts of complications ensued. For one thing fire companies on every hand began to pour into the streets. Terrified ten- ants made matters worse by turning in alarms that had not sounded of their own accord. Injured Treated in New York Hospi- tals. Rhinelander Waldo, fire commission- er for New York_ and Chief Croker, were among the first to reach Com- vas bound for Havana. Theoretically | munipaw from New York. Picked dynamite will not explode either from | New York policemen accompanied #hock or fire but only from a combin- | them and rendered valuable aid to the #tion of both—the detonation produced | injured. Ambulances and express wag- by & percussion eap. A boiler explo- | Ons were used in the work. How many wion would have duplicated the effect | Were injured will never be known in of the per: What followed | full. but the count of those treated 1 the Dest example of in the New York hospitals alone was whimsles of dynamite, one hundred, and those of New Jersey, The Katherine W. simply Hoboken, Union and surrounding s Feb. 1—In not a spifiiter of Res b towns more than double that number. | strong rally during the last siy . The Whistler dissolved into the month, the treasury closed. Janua wreckage. Only her flag pole has been with a deficit of $267.000 in the ord found. The {reight car went up in a and a total deficit of nearly § Duff of dust. On the rear deck of the 000,000, of which barkentine Ingrid were found a pair 2 nts Panama. canal payments. Prac- of iron trucks. They may be the|Has Until Aoril 1 to Determine What | tically the same showing was made trucks of the dynamite car or one of Action He Will Take. January a year ago. Treasur the other four cars gtanding near that | congratulate themselves on the which were also torn to bits. Columbus, ©. Feb. 1.—The unnch'"““ the total deficit to date for Shock Not Felt in Subway Nor in Tubes. Strange to say office_bulidings on the waterfront in New York were no more jarred than those on the further adway, in Wall street, Nas- , on the curb market row or xchange itself. A plate Albany, N. Y., Feb. 1—State Super- intendent of Banks Cheney, says in a signed statement tonight at he has investigated the tramsaction as a r sult of which Joseph G. Robin, the in- dicted New York banker, on May 1, | 1907, gave his check for $4,000 to Mr. Hutchins, chief examiner of the state banking department, and has cluded that “the proof seems sive that Mr. Robin's charge again Mr. Hutchins was wholly without bas! of fact.” At Robin’s examination yesterday in the court of genaral sessions in New York he said that he bribed Mr. Hutchins to pass upon securities co: ering loans held in 197 by the River- side braich of the Northern Bank of ew York, one of Robin's institutions. Dynamits Being ‘Unloaded. The Katherine W. was tied to the vuter end of the pler and a crew of sock hands was unloading a_conslgn- ment of fifty pound boxes from two freight cars to the lighter when the explosion occurred. The Dupont Nem- ours Powder Company were the ship- pers, but to whom the explosive was consigned could not be definitel tained tonight. Onme report said to contractors up the river for blasting slong the Palisades; another that it Archbishop Ryan’s Condition tremely Critical. Philadelphia, Feb. 1.—The Most Rev. Patrick John Ryan, archbishop of Philadelphia, who has lain almost at the point of death since last Thurs- day, is still alive, but his condition is extremely critical. During the afté noon he gave what is probably his last message to the world and his adopted country through Cardinal Gibbons, who visited him in the cathedral re idence. Late tonight the archbishop's phy- sicians said that his chances of su viving the night was slender is Ex- U. S. Treasury Closed January With a| Deficit. the disap- & been EX-PRESIDENT JOHN MITCHELL BETWEEN TWO FIRES. the | $21,000.000 Fifty vards back stood another car | Mine workers yesterday adopted an | PreSent fiscal vear is only L s of mite. The explosion ripped the | amendment to their constitution pro- | 25 aZainst $45000,000 at 700 off of it and broke in the ng that members of the el o but the dynamite itself held i1 1 | Civie Federation must fe rested qulescent in its woeden bLoxes. n the United Strange Freaks of the Expiosion What might have happened hud second car added its chained forc 1o the first can hardly be guessed: the lo terrors of the actuality wero enough. On board the Ingrid the steel | same onal felt member- Workers of | amendment forces | ident of the | on either to up his po fereda- recign from the miners’ union. swing the completion of the ro cail and before the vote was announc >t mizzen mast snapped off above the | am from John Mitchell, who | httongon. lower yard and the tangled wr had been informed of the standing vote | aq by Rev. came tumbling about the decks. of the convention, was réad by Sec-| merlv g thing above the mizzen mast was lev- | ratary Perry. ]P"‘fl:‘ o eiled flat but the steel pla of the In his_telegram Mr. Mitchell said | peral the Lod . Srney hull held and showed not even u mark. | that while he regarded the action as| ATibiitn. comatery;: ey Cercrian = For one hundred feet the pier-end | ‘s cruel injustice” nevertheless he ! pon. i se Bt e ftself was utterly demolished. The |would submit to their wishes. e e el planking seemed to have been ground He has antil April 1 to determine to powde Girders, planking, cross | definitely what action he will take. stays, all the massive framework of a pler bullt to uphold the locomotives and loaled trains were mere nullity. Over the broken edges twisted the steel rails of track. A steel gondola car on the southermost track looked ke an old hat that had been used by boys fer footbal All about were strange freaks of the. explosion. One freight car had the —_— Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps Ward. ship Funeral of Stuart | Anre hn ich Mitenell, Newto workers o U, in the among throng the First Baptist church, Newton Cen- T, at the of Bank Embezzler on Parole from Fed- eral Pi n. Somersworth, N. Feb. 1—Rq dents of Somersworth were surprised 4 today to jearn of the return home of New York. Fred M. Varney, the former cashier of At Azores. Jan. 21, Celtic, from New | the First National pank, who on March York for Naples. 17, 1909, was sentenced to serve five | At Fishguard,” Feb. 1, Campania, | yéars In the federal prison at Atlanta from New York. for the embezzlement of money from At Oran, Jan, 30, fmmrno bank. Tho alleged amount of the Steamship Arrivals. At Liverpool, Feb. 1, Campania, from Massilia, roof blown .inward as if it had been | New York shortage was 000. rney W erushed by a falling boulder but the At Naple: ]eaxedg’;lnd the new fmlm}xl‘ sides were untouched. The irou’ New York. faw. He left Arlanta Sunday. Jan. 31 Sant "Anna, from | LAST DAY FORNEW BUSINESS lOf | ecuting agents by the general statutes | district k Connecticut Legislature PREDICTION OF INVESTIGATION OF COMBINES. Many Timeworn Subjects in New Forms Presented Yesterday—What Today Will Bring Forth None Say. Hartford, Conn.. Feb. 1.—What to- morrow will bring forth in the way of Dbills and resolutions in the general assembly no one could foretell today. The time for bringing in new business pires tomorrow and there is no m- dication that anyone wishes the time extended. The shrprises tods were the presentation of resolutions to have many things investigated such as life and fire. insurance rates, combinations in restraint of trade if there are any doing a business wholly within the state, the prices of necessaries of life and the high cost of living. Today's calls for inquisitions were from dem- ocratic members. Tomorrow the re- publicans will join the procession with bills to inquire into alleged combines in the stale which are said to con- trol the-ice and coal supplies in sev- eral tions. The understanding among the republican members that there will be a determined effort to have some things inquired into seems to be general. The matter of cost of state printing is one of the prospective items of inquiry. E The inrush of new business contin- ued today and there were many time worn subjects in new forms. As yet the total amount of business in hand is below that of the last two sessions. { | i i BLIZZARD OF BILLS, ETC,, This Being the Last Opportunity to Present New Business. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, Feb. day for introducing ne this legislature session and the erwise looks for a blizzard of bills, petitions before ad- journment is taken this afternoon. Another raft of proposed business in Wednesday, enough to keep lerks busy far into the night, that Dbe printed in the journals and distributed on the members’ desks before the time of the session opens is morning. It was one o'clock Wednesday morning before the clerks were able to get the mass of business introduced Tuesday arranged for the but the journals were issued resolutions and came printer: on time. Public Utilities Hearing. Today will also be marked as im- portant by reason of the fact that the judiciary commitee will sit at a hear- inz on all matters concerning public tilities. rezulation of public service rporations 2nd tho establishing of a court of commerce, as-these meas- ures are among the most important to be considered at this session, an unusually large attendance is fore- caste The hearing will commence at 2-o'clock in the old supreme court Toom in the capitol. Public Utilities Hearing. Incident to the preparation to hear scussion of the essentially import- an® measures that are pending the house concurred with the senate at Wednesday’s session in rejecting the resolution raising a special committee to hear the arguments in fayor and against the various employers’ liability and workmen's compensation acts, ind instead adopted a plan whereby a joint committee comprised of the judiciary and labor committees will t at such hearings. Some Funny Stuff Introduced. A resolution offered by Representa- tive Lester Peck of Redding in favor of the calling of an extra session of CONgry that the Payne Aldrich tar- iff might be grilled was settled Wed- nesday in the house, the incident sup- plying a feature of the session. The vote was 118 to 73, the democrats vot- ing solidly in faver of passing the res- olution. Incidentally the many bills Wednesday contained some ne measure providing Esperanto, and another for fixing a bounty on Crows. Interest to Eastern Connecticut. Some Eastern Connecticut matters of interest filed were as follows: Mr. Warren of Killingly introduced act amending an act establishing e town court of Killingly passed pt the session of 1897, making the act fo read that the judge of said court hall annually appoint a prosecuting attorney and an assistant prosecuting , each of whom shall be sworn to a faithful discharge of his duties. “Within the cognizance and jurislic- tion of said town court, and as may be provided and restricted by this act, id prosecuting officers shall exercise the same authority and perform the same duties as are now provided by law for state’s attorneys in their sev- ounties; but shall not compro- mise with nor discharge any offender on payment of costs or other sums without the written approval of the judge, and seid prosecuting officers all further have the same power and authority s are or may hereafter be Ted upon grand jurors and pros- and public.acts. All parts of the old as court as are incons roposed amendment pealed by It. Mrs. An act con- cerning the maintenance of scheols in he towns of Voluntown and Griswold, ection 1 providing that the town of Voluntown shall have jurisdietion of the schools which were previous to a public act of 1909 maintained in a joint own as the “Fourth” dis- ihe town of Voluniown, establishing stent with the are.to be re- which t 1l apportion the moni ¢ the schools i the puablic acts ‘ourth adi town of Gri v » levy and collect xes for the support. repair and erection of said school buiiding, (g Mr. Kenyon of a re borizing the Williman- tic and So bridge Railway company e organmize wnd contruct a lme be-'l troduced ‘ tween the places mentioned ‘before the final adjournment of general assembly at its Jacuary session, 1913 A charter was granted for this road at the ses~ sion’ of: 1501." An appropriation of $1,500 for the erection of 2 monument to Prudence Crapdall 15 asked for in a resolutidn introduced. by Mr, Warren of Killings ly. It is proposed to erect the monu. ment at Packerville, near the Baptist church, where she was sheltered with her colored pupils When driven from the. town of Canteybury in 1833. Pro- vision for the erection of the momu- ment In 1911 is’ asked. The resolution Nomination of County Comm | fice or publi | from | utes. ' Newman for a-change in the game law. In-One Town CABLE TO THE WAR DEPART- MENT» AT WASHINGTON. ERUPTION OF TAAL VOLCANO And the Tidal Wave Following—Earth Shocks Continue in the Philippines— Shakes Felt in Manila. x Washington, Feb. 1—The eruption Taal volcano and the accompanying disturbances in the Philippines killed 700 people .in the town of Talisay, ac- cording to the report of the governor of Batangas province, which was cab- led to the war department today by Governor General Forbes of the Phil- ippine Islands. The earthquake shocks continue, the governor said. Among the estimates of casualties transmitted to the war department to- day was one from Delegate Apacibl representing Batangas in the Philip- Pine assembl. He placed the total dead at 300. The delegate's report added that five thousand families had been runined by the disaster. Shocks Felt in Manila. Recent earthquake shocks have been slightly perceptible in Manila, Gov- ernor Forbes reports, but they have caused no damage. el e P SR SR N also raises a commission to be com- posed of Charles S. Hyde of Canter- bury, Senator Thomas O. Elliott of Pomtfret and Caleb T. Bishop of Plain- field to have charge of the erection of the memorial. First Reports from Committee: The first reports from committees were received at Wednesday’s session, and the matters tabled for calendar. The legislative bulletin for the day contained an assignment for a hearing befor the cities and boroughs ~ommit- tees for a hearing on the petition of Mayor Archibald Macdonald of Put- nam, requesting a change in the char- ter of that city, but it did not take place, being deferred to a later date, not vet announced. Farmers’ Association Meets. Of the matters that interested mem- ‘bers after adjournment Wednesday the meeting of the Farmers’ association was attractive to many. ihe address- es at the meeting were by J. H. Hale, the peach king of Glastonbury, and F. E. Duffy, master of the West Hartford grange. Real Business Next Week. Next week business will begin in carnest. Among the matters to come up are the following: Tuesday—Hearing before the judi- ciary committee on all matters per- taining to the removal of the $5,000 death limit in tort actions; “hearing before committee on federal relations relative to a proposed amendment to the eonstitutions of ;the United States in regard to an income tax. New London County Mesting. Mr. Whiton of New. London, chair- man of the New London county or- ganization, annouiced Wednesday that there is to be a county meeting imme- diately afte: adjournment on Wednes- day, Feb. » It is understood that the county commissioners will be prepared to present their report at that time. The meeting will also consider such matters of business as man require attention. Windham County Members to Meet. The Windham county members will also have a meeting next Tuesday aft- ernoon at 2 o'clock, the special reason being for the purpose of nominating a membe of the state board of agricul- ture. oners It has been agreed in the house that the passing on the nominations for county commissioners in all counties will be made the order of the day on Tuesday next, this arrangement being apparently satisfactory to all concern- ed. SENATE. The senate was called to order at 11 a. m. by Lieutenant Govermor D. A. Blakeslee. Prayer by Chaplain Sexton. Resolutions. By Senator Avery—Concerning the burial of bodies and amending the law relating to the issuance of burial per- mits. _Public health and safety. By Senator Spellacy—Making a half day holiday on election day. Judiciary. By Senator Spellacy—Allowing local option in the observance of Sunday. Judiciary. B ills. By Senator Hammond—Making the person buying intoxicating liquors in a place: which he knows is not licensed subject to the penalties provided in section 2712 of the gemeral statutes. Excise. By Senator McNeil—Repealing law requiring saloons to be closed on Christmas day. Excise. By Senator McNeil—Requiring sam- ples of liquor produced in evidence at trials for violating license laws to be analyzed. Excise. By Senator Mahan—IHEstablishing a teachers’ rétirement fund in New Lon- don. By Senator Hooksr—Fixing ealaries of bank commissioners and clerks as | follows: Bank commissioners, $3,500 each, and $750 each for expenses; clerk, $2,000; stenographer, §1,000; and clerk and stenographer shall be allowed not | more than $300 a year for exp2nses.. Banks. By Senator Brinsmade—That after Jan. 1, 1812, no person shall begin to teach in @ public school unless he has obtained a certificate from state board of education. Education. By Senator Marlowe—Striking out the words or wi two hundred foet ima direct ln: n any church edi- or parochial schoolhouse or the pre pertaining thereto, —Disqualifying ed of violating receiving By Senator erson convi excise for ome Excise. high cost of living. Judiciary. By Senator Donovan—That in towns of over 20,000 inhabitante street rail- way ticketes shall be sold for six for 25 cents. Railroads. Petitions, By Senator Mahan—From John ¥. Fisheries and game. - By 2Senator _Park—From Norwich, 'Colchester and Hartford Traction com- pany for additional right to 1ay tracks in Norwich. Railroads. Adjournsd to Thursday. "HOUSE. Speaker Scott called the house te 700 Lives Lost |Condensed Tel the general stat- | By a vote of 60 to 40 the Montreal hoard of trade in annual session Tues- day passed a ‘resolution declaring against the reciprocity agreement with the United States. Y i The Michigan legislature by a vote of 55 to 44 has defeated the resolu- tion calling for the submission of the question of woman suffrage to the peo- le in November, 1912. Charles A. Cottrill, the Ohio negro who was appointed in December to be collector’ of internal revenue for the district of Hawaii, was confirmed by the senate Wednesday. ¢ Wednesday’s ballot for United States senator from Montana: Carter, re- publican, 35; Walsh, democrat, 29; Conrad, democrat, 18; scattered 15. Necessary to a choice 49. & Robert M. Newton, who committed suicide at Ottawa, llls, Tuesday was presiding judge of the Grand Circuit for nine seasons. He had a coast to coast reputation as a starter. The annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America adjourned Wednesday afternoon to meet nevt yvear at Indianapolis. Little business was transacted on reconvening. The senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Cami A. Thompsen, of Ohio, to be assistant secretary of the interior, and George Puchta to be as- | sistant ‘treasurer of the United States at Cincinnati, Ohio. An equestrain statue of General { Gordon "Meade, commander of the army of the Potomac at the battle of Gettysburg, is contemplated /i a bill introduced in the senate by Semator Warner of Missour] President Taft refuses to discuss extra session” in connection with the reciprocity agreement between the United States and Canada. ‘He hopes that the present session will act favorably on the question. N. P. Bryan, progressive democrat, of Florida, was nominated for the {United States senate in_ Tuesday’s primaries according to almost com- plete returns counted vesterday. His opponent was W. A. Blount. I leaf tobacco on the Danville market broke the record of the tobacco season Tuesday on this on any other market, The total num- ber of pounds sold at auction on the floors of the seven warehouses was about a miliion, Nathan Straus, a millionaire New York merchant, widely known for his philanthropy, notably his pure milk bureaus, was honored at a dinner given by citizens of New York city. More than 600 persons were present, includ- ing men prominent in every calling. President Taft yesterday commuted the sentence of Fred D. Warren, the socialist editor, who was recently sen- tenced to six months imprisonment and $1,500 fine by striking out the im- prisoment and reducing the fine to $100 (o be collected by civil process only. Gustave A. Madero, brother of the revolutionist leader in Mexico, has ar- rived in Washington. He has been in close eommunication with the move- ments of the Mexican insurrectos and declared that within the last month the army of the insurrectos has in- creased from five thousand to 12,000 men. President Taft has withdrawn from all forms of disposition 148.380 acres of land in Wyoming, it was announced at the department of the interior. This area is reserved for the purpose of classification and in aid of legisla- tion affecting the use and disposal of petroleum :lands belonging to the United States. The million dollars for which com- mittees engaged in raising funds for new Y. M. C. A. buildings in Phila- delphia have been striving for the past two weeks was attained Tuesday night, several hours before midnight, when the campaign closed. It was an- nouncedthat a total of $1,024,663 had been collected. The sburg butter and egg ex- change yesterday wired the Pittsburg delegation in congress strongly urging them to support any movement for reciprocity with Canada, particular- ly as it pertains to butter, eggs and cheese.. A message congratulating President Taft on the stand he has taken was also sent. Following the signing by Governor Johnson Tuesday of the anti-gambling bill, Secretary Percy Treat, of the new California Jockey club, today denied a rumor that the meeting would be continued with betting eliminated. The meeting will close February 15. Most of the horses now quarted here will be sent to Juarez, Mexico. A jury was secured yesterday at Springfield, IlL, to try State Senator Stanton C. Pemberton and former Representative Joseph C. Clark, chag- ed with conspiracy to brribe in con- nection with purchasing furniture for the house and senate chambers. States Attorney Burke at once began the opening statement to the jury order at 11.15. fered prayel Chaplain Harrison of- Petitions. Br. Mr. Range, Gullford—Borough of Guilford for amendment in charter re- lating te hours of opening of polls. Cities and boroughs. By Mr. Brown, Bailtic—Ior amend- ment to lawe relating to hours of em- gloymsnt of minors and women. La- or. B ‘Mr. Dunn, ‘Windham—Joseph Peck for a divorce. Judi¢iary. By Mr. Lanphere,Waterford—Amend- ing charter of New London Gas and Electric company. Incorporations. By Mr. Whiton, New London-—An amendment to the constitution limiting the duration of the stated sessions of the general assembly providing that final disagreements shall be continued to a jolnt session of both branches, and increasing the veto powers of the ov- e ts By Mr. Cheshro, Stonington--Ap- pointing Wurtem A. Breed judge of the town court of Stonington Bills. Vernon—Appropri- Rockville city ho. ppropriation; y . Learaed, Li stopping of trolley cars. i By Mr. K Killingly- certain. irregularities and Judiciary. By Mr. Dunn, Windham—Amending to charter city of Willimantic. Cities and boroughs. By Mr. Johnson, Montville—Prohib- iting use of automatic and repeating shotguns in killing game birds. Fish- eries and game. By Mr. Tangier, Rockville—Servi by street raldroad <ompsanies, Rail- road Abell, Lelanon—Concerning ional fences. Agriculture. Ty Mr. Morgan., Groton—Amending concerning o of huwiters. and game. - isherie; ) Arl_wl'}‘ne.l to Thu sou—Regulating Rallroads Validati omissior |Bodies Burned ; By Thousands WILL TAKE A WEEK TO DISPOSE OF ALL OF THEM. VICTIMS OF THE PLAGUE Piled on Top of Lbgs Saturated With Oil and the Torch Applied—Coolies ‘Take No Precautions. Peking, Feb. 1. The discovery that twenty deaths from the, plague have occurred in the Chinese hospital at Tientsin has renewed the suspiclon that the authorities there are conceal- ing the real conditions. In doing this, however, they are merely complying with an’imperial edict recently issued that ne reports should reach the cap- "lll that were calculated to cause alarm. Sickening Sight at Harbi Harbin, Feb. 1.—The burning: of the accumulated bodies of plague victims has bezun, snd already a thousand have been destroyed in this way out- side the various towns. Coffins are stacked upright, surrounded bp logs of W d on which oil has been thrown, while the uncoffined bodies, frozen, aro piled on top. Then the torch is ap- plied: Those having charge gf the cre- mation protect themselves from tihe disease by heavy masks and bandages, but the coolies, who drive the dagons and handle the bodies, being fatalists, take no such precautions, It will take seevral days for the cremation of thosg alveady collected. HOUSE DEMOCRATS FAVOR CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. Every State Delegation Asked to Take the Matter Up and Report. ‘Washington, Feb. 1.—The attitude of the democrats in the house toward the reciprocity agreement with Canada is being thoroughly canvassed at the in- stance of Minority Leader Clark. To- day Mr. Clark asked the democrats in every state delegation to take up the matter and to report to him so that he might know the general temper of democracy in the houss as to the measure. New York, led by Representative Suizer, started the ball rolling and the conference among represantatives from that state was unanimously in favor of the bill incorporating the agreement. Virginia democrats held a meeting at the same time and the consensus of opinion was for the agreement. Dem- ocrats from other states talked over the situation among themselves and the sentiment so far as it developed seemed to be that the democrats should pass the measure because of what it embraced rather than defeat the whotle proposal by balking on any points of omisgion or Inclusion which local in- terests might favor. THIRTEENTH JOINT BALLOT : Y TAKEN AT ALBANY Indicates That the Deadiock is ae Strong as Ever. Albany, N. Y., Feb. L—Another joint ballot today, the thirtesnth since the legislature began the contest over the election of a United States senator to succeed Chauncey M. Depew, indicat- cd that the deadlock is no nearer a break than it was on Jan. 17, when more than 20 “insurgents” refused to support Willlam F. Sheehan, the cau- cus cholce of the democratic organiza- tion. Mr. Sheehan received §2 votes today, 13 short of the required number, while' Edward M. Shepard, his nearest opponent, mustered 10. There was a tacit understanding on hoth sides tonight that no change in the situation was to be expected until next week at the earliest and legisla- tors were busy arranging pairs to en- able them to leave the city tomorrow. FIRING AT TARGET. Shot Went Wild and Struck a New Britain Boy. New PBritain, Conn,, Feb. 1.—Chartes Babula, 12 years old, is in the hospital in a critical condition with a bullet from a .22 caliber rifle in his brain to- night, and Joseph Boskowski is under arrest in connection with the shooting. It is said that while Boskowski was practicing in an areaway with the rifle one of the shots went wild and struck the boy. A few moments later his con- dition was discovered and he was tak- en to the hospital. On learning of the mark his bullet had found, Boskowsk! went to the police station and sur- rendered himself. It is expected that the casa will come up in court tomor- row. Fortifying City of Juarez Against M ican Insurrectors. El Paso, Tex., Feb., 1.—The authori- ties of Juares, Mexico, regard the uation as so critical that they are for- tifying the city to be ready for attack by the insurrectos. Insurrectos are reported within one hundred miles of Juarez and they boast of their intention to take the ecity within a week. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 1.—Orders were received at the El Paso postoffice today not to issue monay orders on places in Chihuahua, Mexico, that are now Im insurrecto hands. Capture of Lt of New York Gang of Kidnappers. New York, Feb. 1.—~With the arrest of Guiseppe Sceri, 35 years old, as he was_leaving his home on East Third street, the police today believe they have captured the leader and the brains of the gang of kidnappers who Icarrlad off the Longo and Rizzo bovs from their homes in Brooklyn last No- vember. Sceri was positively identi- fled at police headquarters by _both Jads today as one of the gang of kid- ¢ and then was taken over to Brooklyn and handed over te the { anthoritits here } Automobile Struck by Chicage Great 1 Western Motor Car. | St Joseph, Mo, Feb. 1.—Edna Coop- j er was killed and five companions we injured, four probably fatally, toda. lwhen o Chicago Great Western mot i into an automobile in which six young men and women wers viding. The automobile belonged to Judge C. M. Spancer, general solicitor for the Burlington railroad, and was in charge of his som, Thomas, 17 years old. Roger Morton, Stanley Clark and Mar garet Bmllh,n' all members of leading families. 2 b e Dean Bill Passed Ohio Senate. Columbus, O, Feb. 1—The Dean bill’ passed ths senate 23 to 12 today. The bill provides that municipalities right A ‘The “others were Lela Cooper, throughout Ohio shall have the to vate on the saloon question less of the country vote. The bl .g0es (0 the house. =